Hofstra Law celebrates Constitution Day
THE HOFSTRA CHRONICLE — Hofstra’s Maurice A. Deane School of Law celebrated the day when state delegates signed the Constitution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The School of Law hosted a conversation with Michael Dreeben, the former U.S. deputy solicitor general in charge of the Department of Justice’s criminal docket. Dreeben represented the U.S. in over 100 cases before…
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LIBN.COM — The university’s Maurice A. Deane School of Law is now offering a new, “intensive” real estate course to provide students with the skill sets needed to “navigate and shape the future of Long Island real estate development,” according to a press release about the program. The initiative is a partnership between the law school’s…
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW — An article by a University of Houston Law Center 3L student and a recent graduate has been accepted for publication in the Environmental Law Institute’s Environmental Law News and Reporter. The article, “All this talk, but plastics keep piling up,” by 3L student Rachael Beavers Horne and 2019 graduate Chantal Carriere…
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW — University of Houston Law Center 2L, 3L, and LL.M. students and recent graduates submitted applications to 45 employers at the Small & Midsize Firm Open House on Sept. 13 Lin the Commons. The Open House was the final event of the Career Development Office’s (CDO) Small & Midsize Firm Career…
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UK NOW — Joshua A. Douglas, Thomas P. Lewis Professor of Law, is the recipient of the 2019 Duncan Teaching Award at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Douglas specializes in election law, voting rights, constitutional law, civil procedure and judicial decision-making. He teaches Election Law, Constitutional Law II, Civil Procedure I and Supreme Court Decision…
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LEWIS & CLARK — Professor Samir Parikh has been invited back to Oxford University on November 6, 2019, to present his new paper, The Golden Age of Bankruptcy Tourism, to business law faculty and PhD students as part of the Oxford Business Law Workshop Series. Parikh is one of only eleven scholars outside of Oxford invited to participate…
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WBIR-TV — Judge Gary Wade, Vice President and Dean of the Lincoln Memorial University-Duncan School of Law announced his plans to retire at the end of the school year.“Judge Gary Wade has notified me that he will be retiring at the end of the school year. I appreciate his dedicated service to the LMU-Duncan School…
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UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE — To ease the transition into life as law students, the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law traditionally welcomes the newest members of its community with an orientation program gearing them up for the rigors ahead. This year, the law school took orientation a step further with a two-week…
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OLE MISS NEWS — The Making and Unmaking Mass Incarceration conference, hosted by University of Mississippi on Dec. 4-6, will examine the history of mass incarceration and envision a world without prisons. The opening keynote address is to be delivered by Albert Woodfox, who was the longest-held prisoner in solitary confinement after serving more than four decades…
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UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI LAW — Mizzou Law celebrated the annual Tim Heinsz Bow Tie Day on Wednesday, September 25. Heinsz, a former MU Law Dean and Earl F. Nelson Professor of Law, died suddenly while jogging on the MKT Trail in July of 2004. Each year since his passing, colleagues, friends and students have celebrated Heinsz’s…
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